Interviews with 36ers and Silver Wind

Where: Montmartre Gallery
When: June 2, 2010, 18:00

The second volume of the Václav Havel Library Notebooks offers selected works from Interviews with 36ers and Silver Wind magazines. These magazines were issued by the teenage circle around young Václav Havel (Jiří Kuběna, Alena Wagnerová, Pavel Švanda, Radim Kopecký and others) in four typed copies in years 1953 and 1954 . The works come out in a print for the very first time.

VHL Notebooks 2010/2: Interviews with the 36ers and Silver Wind May 25, 2010

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Power of the Powerless – samizdat essay

„Technology – that child of modern science, which in turn is a child of modern metaphysics – is out of humanity’s control, has ceased to serve us, has enslaved us and compelled us to participate in the preparation of our own destruction. And humanity can find no way out: we have no idea and no faith, and even less do we have a political conception to help us bring things back under human control. We look on helplessly as that coldly functioning machine we have created inevitably engulfs us, tearing us away from our natural affiliations (for instance, from our habitat in the widest sense of that word, including our habitat in the biosphere) just as it removes us from the experience of Being and casts us into the world of “existences”.“

Václav Havel:
Power of the Powerless – samizdat essay
October 1978

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